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ghsa-5458-w8p3-f624

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:47

Modified

2025-04-20 03:42

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

The sudo helper in the HashiCorp Vagrant VMware Fusion plugin (aka vagrant-vmware-fusion) before 4.0.21 allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging failure to verify the path to the encoded ruby script or scrub the PATH variable.

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CVE-2017-7642 (GCVE-0-2017-7642)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-08-02 19:00

Modified

2024-08-05 16:12

Severity ?

CWE

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/29	mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
	https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant-plugin-changelog/blob/master/vagrant-vmware-changelog.md	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42334/	exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
	https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve20177642-local-root-privesc-in-hashicorp-vagrantvmwarefusion--4020.html	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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Patched: This vulnerability was successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.
Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expresses doubt about the veracity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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